If you’re a Facebook user, you know that to access your photos and videos, you need to sign in. But if you don’t have an account, or if you want to keep your photos and videos private, there’s a way to do that. First, open Facebook and sign in. Then click on the three lines in the top left corner of the main screen. On the left side of the first line, you’ll see a list of your friends’ profiles. Click on one of them to get a list of their photos and videos. On the right side of this line, you’ll see a list of your own photos and videos. To access your photos and videos from Facebook, just click on one of them and then click on the three lines in the top left corner of the main screen.
Since this is a new feature, it’s not yet rolled out to everybody—in fact, we don’t yet have access to it ourselves—so you might want to bookmark this page and come back when the new option shows up for you. If you already see the new options, then let us know in the comments.
How to Download Your Photos and Other Data
First you’ll want to head into the Account menu and choose Account Settings.
Then underneath the “Account Security” link, you should see a new link for “Download Your Information”. If this link isn’t showing up for you yet, then you will just have to keep checking back every so often until it is there.
Assuming the link is there now, you’ll want to click through the Download button.
And again, click through the next Download button…
And then click through the Okay button.
It will take a while for Facebook to put together a file containing all of your information, including your Photos, messages, and other information. Once they have done so, you’ll get an email that says your download is ready, and a link to click.
At this point you’ll have to enter your password again, to make sure it is really you.
Then click the Download Now button, and you’ll be able to finally download the file containing all your photos.
Once the file is downloaded, which might take quite a while, you’ll just have to extract it to access your pictures and other data.
Download Your Photos and Videos – The Video Guide
Here’s a short video that explains how it all works:
In case you’re wondering, we pulled out the steps from the video guide, since some people prefer a step-by-step tutorial instead of a video. Either way, it’s great that we can finally get our photos out of Facebook!
